Cricket books

Firstpost.com on Shyam Balasubramanian and Vijay Santhanam's book, The Business of Cricket: The Story of Sports Marketing in India , which talks about how, a few decades ago, Sunil Gavaskar was a unique phenomenon in India - a

Sunil Gavaskar: Cricket’s original brand icon

In the Observer , Robert McCrum writes of Jonathan Smith, teacher and author, and father of former cricketer Ed Smith, and his book The Following Game , a deeply personal memoir centred on family and cricket.

The joy of teaching

Steve James, writing in the Daily Telegraph , reviews Not in My Day, Sir , a compilation of cricket letters the newspaper has received over the years

Letters to the editor

Tishani Doshi reviews Shehan Karunatilaka's book, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew , in the Observer

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

In the Daily Telegraph Scyld Berry looks back at his four years as editor of Wisden, and makes it clear he is unhappy at losing the job after a relatively short stint

Change in editors at Wisden

Simon Wilde, cricket correspondent for the Sunday Times , explains why it was worthwhile to write a new biography of Ian Botham, hardly the most underwritten of cricketers.

The case for another Botham biography

25-Feb-2013•Daniel Brettig

Cricket's weather-break mathematicians

Barney Ronay meets Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, and finds them "almost alarmingly garrulous" and "endearingly genial" and discusses their new book Duckworth Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It

CricketWeb has had a look at the various books on the game that came out last year, and declared Henry Olonga's Blood Sweat and Treason as its Book of the Year 2010.

Olonga's autobiography is Book of the Year

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

An all-Wodehouse XI

PG Wodehouse, one of the great comic writers, was also a decent medium-pacer and a lifelong cricket addict

Can you write a book on India-Pakistan cricket without ever having watched a match in Pakistan

Diplomatic love for cricket

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

<i>Netherland</i> in line for Cricket Society award

Joseph O'Neill's critically acclaimed novel Netherland ( Review ), which was in the shortlist for the Man Booker prize, is among the contenders for this year's Cricket Society Book of the Year

The Guardian's Andy Bull finds that this year's Wisden Almanack makes for compelling reading, and applauds it for its "refreshingly open-minded and enthusiastic" tone

Wisden remains a timeless gem

Writing a bestseller is a piece of Christmas cake if you are a well-known cricketer and have a good ghost writer

Haunting season

25-Feb-2013•Judhajit

Write in the thick of things

25-Feb-2013•Judhajit

McMillan's autobiography well worth a read

Paul Holden reviews Craig McMillan's autobiography, Out of the Park , in his blog, Sideline Slogger , and credits him for a comprehensive and straightforward take on the various subjects raised in the book.

While reading Bob Woolmer's Art and Science of Cricket Drew Forrest of the South African Mail & Guardian wonders how many of the 642 pages did Woolmer in fact contribute and to what extent is this really his account of the "art and science" of

How much of the book was Woolmer's own?

25-Feb-2013•Nishi Narayanan

Shane Warne's century

Former South Africa and Pakistan coach, late Bob Woolmer’s soon-to-be-released book Art and Science of Cricket , lives up to its name as it primarily serves as a “cricket manual for coaches and serious students of the game”, and does not touch upon

Woolmer's book essentially a cricketing guide